Hand Made Photo Frame - Gift your loved ones some unforgettable memories

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Where ever we go we carry camera with us to capture memories of that place with that
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Most of us take pictures when they are out with friends or family and we keep those photos as unforgettable memories with us. We can create collarge of such photos and gift it to our friends or   relatives on their Birthday. If that photo is framed in a beautiful handmade ’Photo Frame’ then defiantly it is going to create a heart touching effect on them.
Steps to create photo frame using ice-cream sticks.
Step 1: Collect material

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• Ice cream stick
• Photo of person in collarge format
• Thermocol
• Sparkle tube
• Semolina (Rava of bigger size)
• Black chart paper
Step 2: Cut ice cream stick from center into 2 parts and also cut its round corners (as stick number 4 and 5 in step 1, Figure 1)
Step 3: Arrange all sticks as shown in step 1 of Figure 1.
Step 4: Paste stick 7 and 8 to join all sticks 1 to 6 (refer step 2 in Figure 1).
Step 5: Cut sticks from center and this time do not cut corners (stick a, b and c as shown in step 3 of figure 2).
Step 6: Arrange them as shown in step 4 of figure 2.

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Step 7: Paste stick horizontally to support stick a, b and c (refer step 5 of Figure 3).
Step 8: Take 1 tea cup of semolina (rava), apply blue color on it and let it dry as it will be wet after you will apply color.
Step 9: Apply good quality glue on plane side of frame make sure that it is applied in good amount that none of the place remains uncovered from glue.
Step 10: Now sprinkle semolina (rava) on it.
 Step 11: To prepare backside of frame cut thermocol sheet of the same size as of frame and cover it with black chart paper.

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Step 12: Paste thermacol with frame and use thump pin to attach photo on it.

Step 13: Apply sparkle tube and stickers to decorate it.

Now we have a handmade photo frame gift ready with us to be gifted.

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Hand Made Diary Card

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What happens if your loved one is angry and you want to explain her/him reason that it’s not your fault.

But she/he is not listening or taking to you, how you can make her/him happy at the same time share all your feelings. Best way is to prepare diary card. How it is better than simple card?

1.      You have enough space to write your feelings and explanations as you can do in a personal diary.

2.      It looks great as compared to simple diary.

Here are few simple steps to prepare such cards.

Step 1: Collect material.

·        Card paper

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·        Black poster color

·        A4 paper

·        Golden metallic color

·        Some stickers of cute cartoons

Step 2: Cut card paper in rectangular format as per the size of card you want (you can prefer L x B : 15 x 32 cm) and fold it from center.

Step 3: Make design on one side of card as shown in figure 3.

Step 4: Apply color on that side of card (Red color inside the hearts and black color on remaining part).

Step 5: Cut right side of front page of the card (refer figure 2).

Step 6: Cut A4 size paper into 2 parts so that they can get pasted inside the card (number of paper to be cut will depend how many pages you want to add to your card).

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Step 7: Color right half of inner side of card and right side of A4 paper with golden metallic color (refer figure 2).

Step 8: Paste 20 or 30 papers inside the card.

Step 9: Decorate first page of A4 paper and front page of card with cartoons.

Now card is ready you can also mention “Sorry”, “Miss you” etc. on first black portion to make it a sorry card or miss you card.

A heart-touching gift for your beloved ones

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Whenever you need to wish your friend or acquaintances happy and belated birthday, or wish your near and dear ones merry Christmas, new year, diwali or best wishes for any festival or send your beloved ones "happy valentines day" wishes or just say "hello" or give a “get well soon” message to your friend, or you want to express your sentiments, a word that comes to our mind is a greeting card. They are the best medium to express our sentiments for our beloved ones.

In this blog, you can find different hand made cards, try them out and while making them, you definitely gonna enjoy..

 

We can use some craft work also to make it look more creative and beautiful.Some simple steps to prepare card as shown in Figure 1.

Step 1 : Collect material for card.

• Card Paper
• Orange florescent paper.
• Silver glitter pen
• Thermacol cutting blade
• Some decorating material  like :
• Orange flower made of cloth
• Green color glittering stone
• Other decorating material which so ever is available easily to you.

(Note: Prefer orange color decorating material so that card have a decent look and uniformity.)

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Step 2 : Cut the card paper in rectangular format (L x B = 28 x 36 cm) and fold it from between.

Step 3 : Cut  florescent paper of size 26 x 16.5 cm.

Step 4 : Mark 3 circles in it and arrow like shapes in it as shown in second figure. ( Note : In figure 2 only some of the green lines are marked similarly you have to mark it in the entire circle)

Step 5 :  Move the blade over the lines marked in green.

Step 6 : Fold alternate arrow shapes to make orange and white pattern as shown in Figure 1.

Step 7 : Paste that paper on one side of cards.

Step 8 : Now decorate your card by pasting flower on one corner, green stone in center, similarly paste other decorating material as per your choice and similarly use silver glitter pen too.

Now the card is ready, you can give it to our best friends. Hope you all had enjoyed it..

Some important instructions :

Make sure each that arrow shapes are of same width. We can also use paper flower in-spite of cloth. Make all the marks as mentioned in step 4 with very light color on back side of paper (on white side) otherwise marks will be visible on other side of paper also. 

Give your best wishes to beloved ones with a hand made greeting card

Greeting Cards play a very important role in expressing our feelings to our loved ones. They are not just simple folded paper cards but a medium of expressing love, friendship or other sentiments. It's the era of science and technology and with the invention of internet we stay connected with our friends and relatives 24*7. Now e-cards have taken the place of hand made greeting cards. We often give cards to our loved ones on different occasions but, it will be more heart touching if we give them Handmade cards. Its quite easy to prepare a card within few minutes. Just try with me....

I will give some simple steps to prepare card, just follow them and you will be ready with a beautiful card within few minutes. Here we begin with our first step:

Step 1: Collect material for card

• Card Paper
• Red poster color.
• Silver glitter pen.

Step 2: Cut card paper in a standard size (Rectangular shape : 26 x 36 cm) and fold it in between.

Step 3: Apply red color on one side of card (Make sure that color is uniform) leaving a thin border.

Step 4: As soon as color dries using silver glitter pen write "Best wishes" or any two letter text on colored part in a definite pattern.

Step 5: Using black sketch pen or black poster color  to write  "Happy Birthday" and border it using glitter pen.

Step 6: Apply silver sparkle on border of cards as shown in figure.

Step 7: Now card is ready and  you can write all your well wishes inside this card.

Hope you all like this card. If you have any queries, suggestions and comments you can mention it in the comment box. Thanks all...